An article published by Forbes last month uncovered recent research by Blancco and Ontrack of sensitive data being sold on eBay as a result of old hardware not being completely wiped.

Blancco's study with Ontrack explores just how much confidential personal and company data is left behind when assets are sold into the second-hand market. Just what kind of data was found? We found personal information like social security numbers, student data, family photos and more.

Sign up for our webinar on June 5, 2019,at 10 a.m. ET / 3 p.m. BST to find out more about the study and how you can stop this from happening to your organization.

As you may already know, traditional methods of wiping HDDs don’t work on flash-based SSDs, as SSDs come with their own unique risks and challenges, making it difficult to completely wipe data from them.

Watch this on-demand webinar to hear security expert Randy Franklin Smith explain why SSDs are different, and learn what proven methods are recommended for securely destroying the data on SSDs.

Research conducted by Coleman Parkes for Blancco in December 2018, including responses from 600 data center experts in APAC, Europe and North America, shows that inefficient data sanitization processes—such as keeping faulty or end-of-life hard drives onsite—are costing some organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Ouch.

Join Fredrik Forslund, VP of Enterprise and Cloud Erasure Solutions and Dhia Haddej, Enterprise & Data Center Product Manager, on May 16, 2019, for a special data center webinar. In this webinar, you will learn about:

It's Earth Day 2019 and it's never been more important to extend how we're thinking about our planet's future to not only our every day decisions, but in our decisions in technology too!

With that in mind, Blancco and the AfB Group are working together on their mission to save natural resources and combat climate change. AfB Group offers IT services in connection with recycled and refurbished IT hardware.

The “DoD standard,” refers to DoD 5220.22-M, a term often used in the data sanitization industry. But what does this “standard” mean for enterprises, government entities, ITADs, and data sanitization solution providers?

To effectively erase previously stored data, the simplest techniques overwrite hard disk drive storage areas with the same data everywhere—often using a pattern of all zeros. The DoD “standard” and others like it take overwriting a step further with prescribed random overwriting methods. At a minimum, such applications will prevent the data from being retrieved through standard data recovery methods.

Today, DoD 522.22-M is readily available as a data wiping option, but it is often superseded by other data sanitization standards such as those from the National Institute for Standards and Technology.

The DoD method is no longer recommended best practice but can be effective in some instances. It can sometimes also be required by your organization’s policies or other regulations. Increasingly, however, organizations are using NIST 800-88 sanitization methods to prevent unauthorized access of data and sanitize their data storage devices.

For more details on the DOD standard and other data
sanitization
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methods are you familiar with? Are you prepared for secure data erasure?

What exactly is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? And what does it mean for U.S. companies across a wide range of industries? Learn how your organization can stay compliant with the data sanitization requirements outlined in this regulation, along with new U.S. legislation like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

Learn how much you can save on RMA drive costs by erasing your HDDs, SSDs and NVMes and returning them to the manufacturer instead of keeping them around and incurring fees. Use this calculator from Blancco to find out how much you can be saving on drive costs!

Complicated hardware setups can make server erasure tedious and time-consuming. However, data privacy regulations and internal security policies demand they’re wiped clean. What’s a security-conscious business to do? Blancco software has been developed in cooperation with many different server manufacturers to offer the widest possible range of support for secure data erasure. The process is quick and painless, with the ability to erase drives within the servers themselves (no removal required) and control multiple erasures remotely and simultaneously. SAN and storage arrays can also be erased at the logical level without removing the operating system—helping you avoid downtime. Erasure reports are generated to provide tamper-proof evidence of data erasure. These reports can be stored in a central location—Blancco Management Console. And with 24/7 support available from Blancco’s global support team, you can keep your operations running smoothly and efficiently, no matter what. Learn more about server erasure at www.blancco.com/solutions/data-center.

Today, there are a wide range of data erasure standards that software vendors and businesses follow. Blancco, for example, allow its customers to choose from 22 standards with its data erasure software. But how do businesses know which data erasure standard(s) is right for them, and are some standards better than others?

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how data erasure standards have evolved over the past few years, how standards like DoD 5220.22-M and NIST Clear and Purge are applied today and what we expect data erasure standards will look like in the future. Then, find out how your data center can follow server and drive decommissioning best practices using these standards, and discover how you can ensure your data erasure processes are working properly.

In this webinar you will learn:

An overview of erasure standards today

DoD vs. NIST – and their applications today

What global regulations and standards say about erasure

Future-focus: How mobile and ssd erasure standards will evolve

Server and drive decommissioning best practices

How to ensure your data is gone for good

Are you in the know about what data erasure standards are right for your needs?

It's my pleasure to introduce myself to you all. My name is Tiffany and I will be your new point of contact going forward for all things Blannco! I'll be taking the reigns over from Sarah (Thanks for all your hard work, Sarah!) so be sure to contact me directly going forward if you need assistance or have any questions about Blancco solutions!

I will be poking around the community so I look forward to seeing you all around!

What does the ICO say about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and how can make sure your organisation is in compliance? Learn what you need to do to meet the GDPR’s ‘right to erasure’ and how Blancco can help. For example, Blancco’s active erasure solutions allow organisations to erase data in live environments once it reaches the end of its retention period—without any added downtime.

Download the slides to get started with ‘right to erasure’ compliance, then present them to decision makers in your organisation to implement these best practices.